Interesting Facts about Coffee !!

Eighty-three percent of adults in America drink coffee. It’s the world’s
second-most traded commodity, and it’s delicious. But there’s more to
the country’s favorite hot beverage than meets the eye. Here are some fascinating facts about coffee :

1. Coffee beans are actually the pits of berries. The coffee berries,
sometimes called coffee cherries, are an edible fruit that have coffee
beans inside. They are only called 'beans' because of their resemblance
to beans.

2. Drinking coffee can help you burn fat. Studies have shown that drinking caffeine can increase your
metabolism 3 to 11%. It’s one of the few chemicals that can actually
help with fat burning, so might as well drink up!

3. The first webcam in the world was made for coffee. In 1991, a group of Cambridge University scientists set a camera on
their work building’s coffee pot, streaming the footage live on the web
so that they would be able to see if the pot was empty or not, saving
themselves the disappointment of a coffee-less trip.

4. Coffee is good for your liver. People who drink four cups of coffee a day are 80% less likely to
develop cirrhosis, a condition that develops from several diseases
affecting the liver. Although we don’t recommend that much caffeine in
your daily diet.

Coffee Berries !!

5. Caffeine starts working quickly. It only takes ten minutes to start feeling the effects of caffeine after you take a sip of coffee, so drink up.

First Webcam Photo

6. Coffee contains important nutrients you need to survive. A single cup of coffee contains 11% of the daily recommended amount
of Riboflavin (vitamin B2), 6% of Pantothenic Acid (vitamin B5), 3% of
Manganese and Potassium, and 2% of Niacin and Magnesium.

7. Caffeine improves your performance when working out. Caffeine increases your levels of adrenaline, and releases fatty
acids from fat tissues, leading to a better physical performance by
those who consume caffeine before working out.

8. Iced coffee is more expensive because it uses more resources. From plastic cups to napkins to double brewing (re-brewing coffee a
second time to make it stronger), the resources needed for iced coffee
are more numerous (and expensive!) than hot coffee is. All of that adds
up, and it causes establishments to charge more for their iced drinks
than their hot-beverage counterparts.

9. Caffeine is actually crystals. The buzz you feel after drinking coffee is actually from ingesting tiny 0.0016-inch crystals of caffeine.

10. Like most great discoveries, coffee’s magical powers were first realized through the majesty of crazy goats. According to legend, Ethiopian shepherds first realized the profound
caffeinating effects of coffee when they noticed their goats started
“dancing” after eating coffee berries.

Coffee beans

11. Coffee can help you live a longer and healthier life. Coffee contains lots of antioxidants that help the body fight
chemicals called “free radicals.” As a result, coffee drinkers are at a
lower risk of diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes,
and Heart Disease.

12. The most expensive coffee in the world is
made from elephant dung, and it’s called Black Ivory coffee. It costs
$50 per cup. Luwak, aka civet, coffee is made by feeding coffee beans to
mongoose and then using its feces. It costs $160 per pound.

13. Caffeine was once thought to be a
significant diuretic, but that’s actually not true. Unless it’s consumed
in large quantities (more than 500 to 600 mg a day, or two coffees)
there aren’t such negative effects.

Coffee

14. Scientists found that consuming caffeine helped bees to improve their
long-term memories. The caffeine acts on the brain chemistry of bees in a
way that makes the flowers more memorable, so the bees are more likely
to return to plants of the same type.

15. Caffeine, like any drug, is toxic in large enough doses. The lethal dose
of caffeine would require about 100 cups of coffee, and the water from
drinking that much coffee in one go would kill you before the caffeine did